Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 15, 10:06 AM ET

NOK max pain

Spot (delayed)$9.34
Max pain · Fri, Oct 23$10.5+12.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.02±10.9% by Fri, Oct 23
Put/Call OI0.6323K puts / 37K calls
Call wall$10.5largest call OI
Put wall$10largest put OI
IV3065.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$74Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $6

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$10.5+12.4%1d
Fri, Oct 23$10.5+12.4%8d
Fri, Oct 30$10+7.1%15d
Fri, Nov 6$10+7.1%22d
Fri, Nov 13$10+7.1%29d
Fri, Nov 20$10+7.1%36d
Fri, Nov 27$10+7.1%43d
Fri, Dec 18$11+17.8%64d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot10.5159121620$31M$0
■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 10.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot10.51691215209K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NOK open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 23.

Open-interest change — building vs unwinding

Needs two observed snapshot days for this expiration — the comparison appears automatically once the next weekday snapshot lands. We diff real observations only; nothing is estimated.

Volume by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot10.51691215204K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot4710141720330%80%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 85.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spotflip 6179.51214.518+$133K−$133K
Net dealer gamma per strike, in dollars per 1% move, assuming the standard convention (dealers long calls, short puts) — an assumption, not an observation. Above the amber flip level hedging tends to dampen moves; below it, to amplify them.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Oct 23

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0060.01480.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.006.50.02600.00-0.00-0.02
0.97-0.0170.04650.00-0.01-0.03
0.94-0.017.50.08360.00-0.01-0.06
0.89-0.0180.14510.00-0.01-0.11
0.79-0.028.50.22740.00-0.02-0.21
0.65-0.0390.29840.01-0.03-0.35
0.49-0.039.50.31870.01-0.03-0.51
0.35-0.03100.28720.01-0.03-0.65
0.24-0.0210.50.23200.01-0.02-0.76
0.16-0.02110.17620.00-0.02-0.84
0.11-0.0111.50.12950.00-0.01-0.89
0.07-0.01120.09380.00-0.01-0.93
0.05-0.0112.50.06760.00-0.01-0.95
0.04-0.01130.04870.00-0.01-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 31 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot171115223067K0
Call open interest per strike, stacked across the checked expirations — each color is one expiry. Strikes are pruned to the liquid center of each chain.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot15.51014.52231256K256K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2.3M call contracts, 910K put contracts open.

Reading this honestly

Max pain is arithmetic, not prophecy: the settle price that would minimize what option writers pay out at expiration, computed from open interest alone. Prices sometimes gravitate toward heavy strikes into expiry — dealer hedging is a real flow — but the evidence that max pain predicts settlement better than chance is mixed, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Use it as a map of where positioning is stacked, next to the fundamentals and the earnings calendar, not as a target.

Data: Cboe delayed public feed (~15 minutes), refreshed here about every 15 minutes. Open interest itself updates once daily, before the open. Educational information, not investment advice.

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